[mythtv-users] : DVB channels keep re-appearing

[Rickard Olsson]

Tom Hughes wrote:

> Because 0.17 now has automatic channel detection - that includes both
> the scanner in the setup program and automatic detection of new channels
> as they appear. If you delete a channel then the next time you tune to
> another channel on that multiplex Myth will detect the missing channel
> and add it.

Ah, that would explain my problems with that, then. This isn't really a 
very good feature. You see, there are channels in the free-to-air 
multiplexes in Sweden that aren't actually available - there's SVT Extra 
(XMLTV ID extra.svt.se) and a few text channels. These get added in 
MythTV, but when I channel-surf to them (not knowing when they get 
added, I assume that going UP from my last channel would take me back to 
my first 'real' channel), the back-end can't find them and so the 
frontend locks up for 15 seconds. This happens even if I set them as not 
visible - they disappear from the TV Guide, but they are still surfable.

Furthermore, I can't easily get the backend out of it since it does not 
revert back to a functioning channel by itself and if I try to start the 
frontend in View TV mode, it just locks for 15 seconds and exits to the 
main menu again. Restarting the backend works sometimes, but a few 
times, something has changed the Start Channel value to the most recent 
bad channel, so I'll have to run mythsetup.

How about a blacklist for deleted channels? This could probably be 
implemented by letting the Visible flag be more pervasive in the system, 
and not just in the Guide.

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